Some people have a problem with excess weight because their body has been triggered into a functional "survival mode physiology." In "survival mode physiology," the body keeps wanting to store excess weight because its information-processing pathways are confused, and the whole body responds to food differently than normal. If the body reacts as if it were in a mode of survival - needing to save and store fat - then it is only doing so because that is what it would do in a real, desperately needed survival crisis: surviving perfectly, yet not in your best interests.

So what can be done about this unwanted fat? Instead of just trying to overcome the excess weight reaction by trying to bypass the body's own regulatory systems with drugs or surgery, we have to find the reason why it wants to react this way in the first place. Using drugs to force a solution, and bypass the body's natural regulation systems will ultimately fail because as soon as the intervention stops, the body will come right back to the way it was before the intervention. And abdominal surgery? Eating less of the same food you've always eaten because you might feel full sooner is not the answer to better health. In reality, it is just slow starvation, and starvation is never the best way to lose weight.